The July 2022 Amphibia Attacks (2024)

The July 2022 Amphibia Attacks

DISCLAIMER: Awhile back, I privated my Twitter to feel safer, but it still had some things on it that I don’t want to cut off people’s access to. And while the Wayback Machine is absolutely incredible for what it does, I find it so agonizingly tedious to load up even one page to read. It’s even worse if there’s images attached, each of which I have to manually open in a new tab to see, if they load at all. So I’m taking some of my old posts and reformatting them for Tumblr. This is STRICTLY FOR DOCUMENTATION PURPOSES. Do not assume these are recent events and do not EVER harass anyone!!!

SUMMARY: The Amphibia Attacks (as I call them) were a set of targeted stalking, harassment, and witch-hunting of four artists in the Amphibia fandom for their private, “problematic” nsfw art. This led to the doxxing of a fifth artist who was at very real risk of death. It’s one of the most dire situations I’ve ever seen spawn from the “anti/proship” discourse, and I had the displeasure of being there as it happened, where I was able to document and collect information so that people could be informed.

CONTENT WARNINGS: Harassment, doxxing, mocking victims of such things, discussion of nsfw art of child characters (but no images shown), liberal accusations of “pedophilia”, disturbing audio of the culprit bragging about what they had done with their “fans”

The original Tweet thread on the Wayback Machine can be found here. Everything below the Read More link is a direct paste of that thread and its relevant media (with a couple accessibility tweaks).

I also dumped all the individual screenshots I’ve used into this Google Drive folder, in case people would like to borrow them or if the combined versions I made are difficult to read for some reason.

Speaking of accessibility, almost all of these screenshots are nothing but text, and I’ve been working on this for hours, so I’m going to post them as is, but anyone who sees this is welcome to add captions that screen readers can follow.

In the last few days, I’ve come to understand that all the info I wanted people to know about the recent Amphibia Attacks has been documented by others, BUT they’re all separate threads posted across Twitter.

This thread is to provide some connective tissue to form a full picture.

Several anonymous users conducted a coordinated attack against four artists, two of whom are crew members for Amphibia. The invasive release of these artists’ private nsfw accounts also directly inspired the doxxing of a fifth artist (a minor), almost leading to her murder.

The “proship” crowd gets made fun of for overstating the “body count” of antishippers, but this time it almost happened. Brownteen32 was a 17-year-old girl living in a third world country where “dishonor is death”, and she would have been legally killed for her art.

I’m starting with her case because it was the most dire, and thus I paid much closer attention to how she was doing. Thankfully, Brownteen is safe now, though she has decided to leave social media. I hope she will remain safe and still be able to live a fulfilling life.

The people that attacked BT have many sock puppet accounts, but a thread by @/stopnow98630374 (linked next) suggests they aren’t all one person. The original attacker is @/phibbyburner, who at time of writing, is still active. The doxxer is @/ballsybeech aka @/AllBeech.

Part 1 of the aforementioned thread (and the Archive if it’s ever needed).

Part 2, because the thread was cut for some reason (and the Archive)

Phibby’s priv has been confirmed to be @/booboyapologist, both in these screenshots and in the linked video (more on the videos soon).

Video (and the Archive)

There are also mentions of a “mole” that helped Phibby get the information. I have not seen confirmation of who this person is yet.

Link to the video pictured above (Archived version)

I’m going to come back to Phibby after I cover Beech’s actions.

These are the 1st posts Beech made against Brownteen: screenshots of her old Instagram callout against someone else for “pedo” art. Brownteen’s responses included in the link so she can explain. I understand and believe her.

There’s also these, specifying that Brownteen was 17 (A MINOR) when this happened. These are from Instagram.

I don’t know if these are from Phibby, Beech, or someone else.

I really want people to see this in particular. She is BEGGING this person not to do this to her, APOLOGIZING for sh*t that wasn’t wrong, and even calling her own artwork REVOLTING. Said she would get off social media forever too. All to survive!

THIS TOO! Directly pleading for her life, and this heartless monster went through with it anyway and smugly said “that’s what you get uwu”! It’s honestly heartbreaking.

I’ll restate that Brownteen was able to get home safely, and was very thankful to everyone who supported her and gave her advice through all this. Also of note is that Brownteen deactivated for a short amount of time, out of fear.

I am DISTURBED by the fact that someone was backed into a corner like this and almost killed. She deleted ALL her artwork out of fear, tried to say she regretted drawing it, was made to express remorse for it, and all the while mocked and terrorized.

Besides that, Beech has continued to post Brownteen’s private f*cking photos online with VERY nasty captions.

I’m only linking these so y'all can report them. Make these into dead links please!

Link 1 | Link 2

Hey, present day Starrbar here, THESE ARE STILL UP FOR SOME GOD-FORSAKEN REASON. So I’m leaving the links here to be reported! Brownteen made it clear she didn’t want even partially censored pictures of herself left online, which is one reason I literally chopped up my original thread and re-did it with all her photos FULLY blacked out. I know some of the other documentation does have partially censored photos of her, but those people were at least on her side and trying to help. These, on the other hand, were purely malicious and trying to bring her harm. GO REPORT THEM, PLEASE!

Beech had also leaked Brownteen’s address, but thankfully that Tweet was successfully removed.

Now, to finish covering Phibby’s (current) actions.

This thread, which I have already linked parts of, contains audio/video recordings of Phibby damning himself further in a voice chat. It’s painful to listen to if you aren’t a remorseless pig like him.

Video (Archived)

Phibby claiming to have a coherent motive despite admitting in a public voice chat that he just likes to f*ck with people for clout~

“Cyberbullying isn’t real”, also said in one of the audio clips. Constantly mocking the victims and talking about how they just need to “turn off the PC and go outside”, as if his entire goal wasn’t to ruin their f*cking lives.

I think we’ve ALL clowned on this one by now, so pick your favorite QRTs! Reminder that the rhetoric Phibby based his “reasoning” on is entirely bound to lead to stuff like this. If you dehumanize others by convincing yourself that they’re predators, things WILL escalate.

Now, as for the other artists that were attacked, primarily by Phibby, I don’t know every detail of that, but I’ll highlight a few things.

Phibby’s 1st Tweets were just a bunch of screenshots (and a tasteless video compilation) of the artists’ private nsfw of “minor” characters.

I will not be spreading those callouts, as they were not meant to be spread in the first f*cking place. But I will assure people that the ONLY thing contained in any of them was artwork. Stylized, cartoon sketches of the Amphibia characters doin smut.

The horror. 🙄

The main thing I think I need to say about these 4 artists is that people initially thought that all of them were Amphibia crew members, but that isn’t true. Only 2 of them are, the other two are fanartists.

Here’s a simple guide. (Archive)

I do know that Sook, aka @/DirdyBongWater, deactivated after all this. However, I have been told that they’re fine. Obviously I can’t verify this personally, but I really hope that they are.

Alex, aka @/raebits, has also deactivated, and the f*ckers are all celebrating it.

One thing that has come to my attention is that a user by the name of @/dilydily292 has appeared and started going after Phibby, with alleged doxx information. -_- This is not okay, and I encourage people to go report that account, regardless of how much I hate Phibby.

The account also fails to prove… anything?? Like, they don’t give any evidence that actually connects Phibby to the names and messages they’re posting. All around lame job. And again, don’t doxx ANYONE!

I think that’s all I got for this. I REALLY hope I didn’t accidentally post anything that Brownteen didn’t want out there. I know other people have already shared some of it (not their fault—Brownteen only told me directly what her boundaries were), but I really tried not to.

Never forget what this was really about. Not pedophilia, not incorrect art. It was about stalking, privacy invasion, and people playing judge, jury, & executioner for the sake a power high. This was an attack, not a tragic outing of “bad artists”.

Link to another one of my (much shorter) threads about this (Archive)

And I hope anyone who reads this will believe me when I say this. If you have any kind of taboo/dark fictional interests: You are not alone, you are not wrong, and you are not obligated to live in accordance with the wonky demands of bullies on the internet. You are okay. 💖

Tiny update: It’s hilarious that all it took to make the bullies mad was for Alex to reactivate and then sit there on priv with an icon people feel entitled to gatekeep x’D

The irony of the “you’re a grown adult” comments too, ah, chef’s kiss~

Happy update! The other three artists are BACK and wearing their true selves proudly!! @/raebits is still priv, but they’ve been back for awhile, and I hope they’re doing well. We also have @/FISTRAID, @/bokobokosplices, and @/bangkaigagak (just so no one has to dig around)